Mike Mayer

(Mike Mayer)

Play mostly german-styled games, but like party, dexterity, and others as well. My favorite? Whichever one I'm playing at the moment, of course!

My pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/91512887@N00/84404152/

Me on Mark Johnson's Boardgames To Go podcast (scroll down to the Robo Rally episode): http://boardgamestogo.com/2005_06_01_boardgamestogo_archive....

Life-long member of the Wilmington Board Gamers (link below).

My files on BBG (due to a glitch, they don't appear on my contribution profile):

Heroscape scenarios/variants:
Hordes: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=7329
Agent Carr: Universal Assassin: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=7317
Capture at Forsaken Waters: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=7290
Settlers of Heroscape: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=7313

Ricochet Robot Turn-based Variant: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=6408
Ricochet Robot Collected Variants: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=3860

St. Petersburg variant cards ideas: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=6080

Mississippi Queen River Tile Selection By Vote: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4982
Racing with large groups: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=484

Finstere Flure "Frankenstein vs. Dracula" variant: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4533

Lord of the Rings:
Reading variant: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=483
Lord of the Rings "Corrupt Hobbit Variant" version 0.2: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=524
LIVING SAURON VARIANT FOR LORD OF THE RINGS: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4112

Frank's Zoo "Accordion" Solitaire: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4113

Carcassonne Flowerpower variant:
http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=4115

Elfenland Variants: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=3859
Elfenland on a Heroscape board: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=7393

Shapeshifters Reference Sheet: http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=3424

Starfarers 2-player - tweaked and tested.
http://www.bggfiles.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=2315

Streetcar variants: http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=904
http://files.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=2094

Articles appearing on the web outside of BBG:

Review for Funkenschlag: http://www.gamereport.com/tgr27/funkenschlag.shtml
Game: Budget Crokinole: http://www.thegamesjournal.com/rules/BudgetCrokinole.shtml
Game: Yes or No Adventures: http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/archives/2000/09.01.html
Strategy guide "Five Steps to Looking Like a Genius at Ricochet Robot": http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/archives/2000/09.22.html
2-player variant for Lord of the Fries: http://www.cheapass.com/free/variants/lotf_shortstaffed.html
http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/archives/2000/03.31.html

Gaming articles elsewhere:

Snack Monster: Dragon Magazine #282
Crokinole Variants: Crokinole Quaterly 2002
Ursuppe cards "Threat Display" and "Rebound": Ursuppe expansion